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ReadWriteWeb
A study that will appear in tomorrow's New Scientist magazine found that social media sites, blogs, and instant messaging services were better at connecting people and providing warnings during emergencies than traditional sources of such information, according to the Telegraph. Dr. Leysia Palen, an Assistant Professor of (Read More)
May 01, 2008
: Great find - I first noted that three police departments were on Facebook (there are now five) and two (there's now a third, but no posts yet, though they have 5 followers) are on Twitter. I made some suggestions in our recent book that police departments could find innovative ways to communicate with the communities, and I have been impressed with those who are (and I am waiting patiently for the tens of thousands who are not). I delved a little deeper into a hypothetical scenario in a post on Social Network Commerce.I have noted also that a fire department is Twittering (update: Now there's a second). The @LAFD has a very active presence in the Twitterverse, and they add followers by the day (you can follow them, too) though they are only following one. And I just realized that there are nine (yes, 9) Fire Departments on Facebook -- wow! And yesterday (Wednesday, April 30, 2008), while Twittering with Chris Brogan (@chrisbrogan), I learned from @wscottw3 (yeah, the Comcast guy) that Amber Alerts are on Twitter, too - see @Amber_Alert, whose Twitter Feed is directly from the national website DM. http://carterfsmith.blogspot.com/2008/04/amber-alerts-using-social-web-at-least.html 3
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Twitter Blog
Twitstori is the "the first step in an ongoing social experiment based on twitter" and it is very cool. The geniuses behind this project are amy hoy and thomas fuchs. Amazing!. (Read More)
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Twitterholics
Is a verbose Twitterer getting on your nerves? Or maybe everyone is tweeting about a conference you didn’t attend? Instead of un-following the users, you can just snooze them instead. With Twittersnooze, you simply enter in your Twitter credentials, the username of who you want to snooze, and the length of time for t (Read More)
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Submitted by Russellreno:
Twitdir finally reported more than 1 million Twitter users, see the screenshot below. (Read More)
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Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
If you had any lingering questions or doubt over whether Twitter is saturating the "early adopter" market segment, check out these numbers.We surveyed a random sample of 250 of our 1650 invite-only early adopters of socialmedian today. 140 of the 250 responded within 3 hours to the survey.We asked them which of the followin (Read More)
Apr 23, 2008
: See the graph/picture when you click through to the original article on this one.[Gosh, we really need to enable users to grab pics when using our clip tool!] 4
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TechCrunch
We used to speculate that Twitter’s persistent downtime and overall poor service quality could result in a Friendster-type nose dive. But after a three day weekend outage I realized that in the last two months a subtle shift occured: I now need Twitter more than Twitter needs me.So while Robert Scoble speculates that (Read More)
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